My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy Lyrics - Dolly Parton

From a shack by a mountain stream 

To a room in New Orleans 

So far from my Blue Ridge mountain home 

The men I meet, ain't warm and friendly 

Like the one in old 'virginny 

Oh they ain't real, like my Blue Ridge mountain boy 

I was just a little past 18 

When I came to New Orleans 

I'd never been beyond my home state line 

There was a boy who loved me dearly 

But I broke his heart severely 

When I left my Blue Ridge mountain boy 

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Life was dull in my home town 

The lights were out when the sun went down 

And I thought the city life was more my style 

But nights get lonely waiting home 

And its easy to go wrong 

The men ain't kind 

Like my Blue Ridge mountain boy 

New Orleans held things in store 

Things I'd never bargained for 

And every night a different man knocks on my door 

But late at night when all is still 

I can hear a whiporwill, as I cry, for my Blue Ridge mountain boy 

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Oh but I can ever go back home 

Since the boy I love is gone 

He grew tired of waiting for me to return 

They say he married, last October 

But I never will get over 

Oh, the sweet love of my Blue Ridge mountain boy 

Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, mmmmhmmmmmm